Effective Team Training: Four Steps
You’ve trained them well. They’re highly capable team members. They’re going to do great.
Category: Leadership
Wise Leadership Understands the Truth About Spiritual Fruit
We began to see the issue was fruit, not knowledge: God was concerned with the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
Pastors Face a Crisis of Trust
A Pew survey found that 69% of people believe that religious leaders act unethically some, if not all, of the time. Pastors face a crisis of trust.
Why “Church Leadership” is NOT a Dirty Word
The more I have written about church leadership the more critics would email to say I shouldn’t. I shouldn’t tie leadership and the church together so closely. People have said I focus too much on church leadership and not enough on Jesus.
Lead Well, Love Well
The consistent thing I see for these leaders who lead well is that they love well. The most amazing missional community leaders I’ve seen are the ones that love people well by modeling the love of God to them.
9 Ways Great Leaders Communicate
Great leaders are great communicators. Communication certainly includes making a great speech, or for pastors, delivering a compelling sermon.
The Difference in Popularity and Trust in Leading People
I’ve seen leaders – whether pastors, politicians or in business – try to take people places, even worthy places, and believe people would follow because they are popular as a leader. What they really needed was leadership trust.
Make Children’s Ministry Church Plant Volunteers Feel Important!
It’s a given that volunteers who teach, lead worship and facilitate small groups are important. We must help church plant volunteers see that every single role in children’s ministry is important.It’s a given that volunteers who teach, lead worship and facilitate small groups are important. We must help church plant volunteers see that every single role in children’s ministry is important.
James Emery White: Is A Church Leader a “Shepherd” Or A “Rancher?”
What is keeping many of these churches from reaching their full potential? In many cases, I think it’s something as simple – but decisive – as the Shepherd-Rancher divide. This is based on the premise that these are the two basic kinds of church leaders — Shepherds and Ranchers.
The Church That Saved Me
We had some successes in the five years I pastored there—increased attendance, major structural changes, renewed vision, and healthy leadership — it wasn’t me who saved the church. The church saved me.
